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WEEK 3

WEEK 4

09/13. Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Christine de Pizan. From Augustine's On Christian Doctrine (185-92) and The Trinity (192-96). From Aquinas' Summa Theologica (240-46). From Dante's Il Convivio (246-50) and "The Letter to Can Grande" (251-52). From De Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies (263-70). SESSION AUDIO

WEEK 5

09/20. Joachim du Bellay, Giacopo Mazzoni. Du Bellay's Defence and Illustration of the French Language (279-90). From Mazzoni's On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante (299-323). Journal Set 1 Due by Email. SESSION AUDIO

WEEK 10

10/25. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. From Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (759-67); from The German Ideology (767-69); from The Communist Manifesto (769-73); from Grundrisse (773-74); from "Preface" to A Contribution... (774-76); from Capital, Vol. 1, Ch. 1 "Commodities" (776-83). SESSION AUDIO

WEEK 11

11/01. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe. From Emerson's The American Scholar (717-21); "The Poet" (724-39). Poe's "The Philosophy of Composition" (739-50). Journal Set 2 Due by Email. Guest instructor: no audio session.

WEEK 12

11/08. Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme. From Baudelaire's The Painter of Modern Life (789-802). Mallarme's "Crisis in Poetry" (841-51). SESSION AUDIO

WEEK 15

WEEK 16

12/06. Ferdinand de Saussure. From Course in General Linguistics, "Introduction" and Part One, Chapter I (956-77). SESSION AUDIO

Technical Note: I record audio files in class with an Olympus DM-1 digital voice recorder, transfer them via USB to my laptop, edit them in Nero Wave Editor and convert them to 16 kbps mp3 files with Nero's mp3 Pro encoding feature. Then they are uploaded to this wiki site.